December 11, 2021

2021 MSR Asia Theory Workshop

Location: Beijing, China

Time Workshops Speakers
9:00 – 9:30 Opening Moderator: Xin Ma

Welcome Speech by Dr. Lidong Zhou

Inauguration Ceremony of MSR Asia Theory Center

  • MSR Asia Theory Center Introduction by Dr. Wei Chen
  • Speech by Prof. Zhi-Ming Ma, on behalf of the advisory committee
  • Speech by Dr. Tie-Yan Liu, on behalf of the organization committee
9:30 – 10:15 Plenary Talk: Theory in an industry lab John Hopcroft (Cornell University)
10:15 – 10:35 Break & Photo
10:35 – 11: 45 Panel Discussion: Theory Research in Big Data Era Moderator: Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia)

Panelists:

  • Xiaotie Deng (Peking University)
  • Pinyan Lu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
  • Liwei Wang (Peking University)
  • Wei Chen (Microsoft Research Asia)
  • Wei Chen (Microsoft Research Asia)
11: 45– 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:20 Talk: Theoretical Aspects of Gradient Methods in Deep Learning Jian Li (Tsinghua University)
13:20 – 13:40 Talk: Batch Online Learning and Decision-Making Yuan Zhou (BIMSA)
13:40 – 14:00 Talk: Sequential Search Problems Beyond The Pandora Box Setting Hu Fu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
14:00 – 14:20 Talk: Coresets for Clustering with Missing Values Shaofeng Jiang (Peking University)
14:20 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 14:50 Talk: What Makes Multi-modal Learning Better than Single (Provably) Longbo Huang (Tsinghua University)
14:50 – 15:10 Talk: Causal inference, observational studies, and the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics Wang Miao (Peking University)
15:10 – 15:30 Talk: The implicit bias of optimization algorithms in deep learning Qi Meng (Microsoft Research Asia)
15:30 – 15:50 Talk: Recent results on stochastic 3D Navier-Stokes equations Xiangchan Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
15:50 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:45 Plenary Talk: From mathematics to data science and back Terry Lyons (University of Oxford)
16:45 – 16:55 Closing